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To: Fishtalk
Leave it to Big Tony to put a smile on your face.

Also the National Garden of American Heroes is yet another stroke of genius by our potus:

US President Donald Trump has ordered the creation of a "National Garden of American Heroes" to defend what he calls "our great national story" against those who vandalise statues.

His executive order gives a new task force 60 days to present plans, including a location, for the garden.

He insists the new statues must be lifelike, "not abstract or modernist".

A number of US statues have been pulled down since the police killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd in May.

Monuments linked to the slave-owning Confederacy during the Civil War in America have been especially targeted in the nationwide protests ignited by the death of Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.

President Trump has defended Confederate symbols as a part of American heritage.

In a speech to mark Independence Day at Mount Rushmore, he condemned the anti-racism protesters who toppled statues.

He said America's national heritage was being threatened - an emotive appeal for patriotism.

The garden - to be in a place of natural beauty near a city - is to be opened by 4 July 2026, Mr Trump's executive order says. State authorities and civic organisations are invited to donate statues for it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53292585

11 posted on 07/05/2020 5:00:08 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic home of free because of the Brave)
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To: rodguy911

The garden proposed by Trump a “ here take this fools” master stroke by him for all of us who know the sacrifices made by our parents grandparents who served to keep freedom alive, who also have lived and worked with people of all backgrounds and understand that in any community there are “ bad Apples” that seek to tear down everything that has been accomplished throughout the formation of the greatest country on earth.


97 posted on 07/05/2020 7:46:34 AM PDT by patriotspride
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